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Re: Myspace looked like it was back, but was a pawn in an ad fraud scheme

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Post by gowld »

sogen wrote: post #8
Sujan wrote: post #2

Another article about this kind of click fraud. And again only lots of details where the traffic goes and how it is then used to "spam" impressions on ads. Does anyone understand what devices/users are actually going into this "funnel" and where they come from? Botnet? Junk traffic from porn sites? Iframes?

http://money.cnn.com/2016/12/20/technology/ad-fraud-online-m...

This is the real Artificial Human Intelligence

Re: Myspace looked like it was back, but was a pawn in an ad fraud scheme

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Post by cisanti »

gowld wrote: post #10
Sujan wrote: post #2

Another article about this kind of click fraud. And again only lots of details where the traffic goes and how it is then used to "spam" impressions on ads. Does anyone understand what devices/users are actually going into this "funnel" and where they come from? Botnet? Junk traffic from porn sites? Iframes?

why are porn sites "junk traffic"? the users eyeballs are still eyeballs

Not for the companies buying the ads, you need the ask the question from them.

Re: Myspace looked like it was back, but was a pawn in an ad fraud scheme

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Post by kaishiro »

mratzloff wrote: post #6
jack9 wrote: post #4

Viant (aka Specific Media) is a well known fraudster. Nobody in the ad industry thought MySpace was "back" after you heard who bought it years ago. The Vanderhooks (the brothers who founded Specific and continue to run all their schemes) pioneered the pop-under and have been running darker scams ever since. I worked for Specific for a few years and the brothers were refreshingly tech savvy. The penchant for fraud was…

Why did you work for them for a few years if they were engaging in fraud?

These things are rarely gone over in the initial ramp up in my experience :)

It usually takes some time to see what the actual core values of an organization are.

Re: Myspace looked like it was back, but was a pawn in an ad fraud scheme

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Post by urlgrey »

Crawlers & bots trigger video playback on the websites they visit, though it's probably unintentional in most cases. At Mux we have taken steps to identify such video views to limit their impact on aggregate video view performance metrics: https://mux.com/blog/do-androids-watch-videos-of-electric-sh...

Re: Myspace looked like it was back, but was a pawn in an ad fraud scheme

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Post by tenaciousDaniel »

Sujan wrote: post #2

Another article about this kind of click fraud. And again only lots of details where the traffic goes and how it is then used to "spam" impressions on ads. Does anyone understand what devices/users are actually going into this "funnel" and where they come from? Botnet? Junk traffic from porn sites? Iframes?

http://www.ana.net/content/show/id/botfraud-2017

Re: Myspace looked like it was back, but was a pawn in an ad fraud scheme

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Post by Horatio9000 »

sogen wrote: post #8
Sujan wrote: post #2

Another article about this kind of click fraud. And again only lots of details where the traffic goes and how it is then used to "spam" impressions on ads. Does anyone understand what devices/users are actually going into this "funnel" and where they come from? Botnet? Junk traffic from porn sites? Iframes?

http://money.cnn.com/2016/12/20/technology/ad-fraud-online-m...

> "The Methbot is a beautiful simulacrum of a real browser. It's gotten better over time. And by better, I mean, a more perfect life-like copy," said White Ops CEO Michael Tiffany.

Very interesting.

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